Toy.



K. OSTLUND. I

TOY. APPLIOATION rnjnn' MAB. 1, 1911.

997,695, Patented July 11, 1911.

INVENTOR ATTORNEY .COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH cm. WASHINGTON. n. c.

UNTE TAT KARL OSTLUND, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

TOY.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, KARL OSTLUND, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful. Improvements in Toys, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to toys and has particular reference to that classwherein is combined strict utility with the amusement features.

My invention consists in a novel form of childs savings bank andoperative part-s connected therewith, which enables the child to put itssavings in the old familiar place, the bureau drawer and at the sametime make the deposit in a bank. The general design is that of a dresseror bureau, which makes this toy attractlve as an ornament. The front ofthis dresser has blind drawer fronts carved thereon and I a rear drawerfor the reception of the money to be saved. Associated with theoperation of the money drawer, and operated by the latter, are a pair offigures or jack-in-thebox men. The latter bob up, when the money draweris opened, and the mirror of the dresser is caused to convey the messageof the mute figures, such as, for instance, Thank you. These movingmechanical features of the bank are designed not only for their amusingor entertaining efiect, but also to stimulate interest in the bank onthe part of relatives and friends of the owner of the bank and, nodoubt, stimulate the making of deposits. The attractiveness of thedesign, the mirth-provoking element and the politeness associatedtherewith are calculated to cheer up a person into a giver where hewould otherwise feel indisposed to encourage the thrift of a child oryoung owner of this bank.

In the accompanying drawing, showing the novelconstruction, combinationand arrangement of parts of my invention, Figure 1 is a perspective viewof my preferred form of embodiment of same. Fig. 2 is a transversesection of same. Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of the dresser top orcover of the bank, the jacks or figures being shown, in bottom end viewsof the latter, in their relations to said top or cover. Fig. t is a planview, partly in section, of the structure after the top has beenremoved. Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail view.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 1, 1911.

Patented July 11, 1911.

Serial No. 611,673.

In the several views the body of the toy, or the bureau or dresser as awhole, is indicated by the numeral 2. This dresser is shown with a swellfront the outer face of which has drawer-fronts 3, l, 5, 6, and 7without any drawers back of them. 8 is a drawer with a front made toharmonize in general appearance with the fronts of the blind drawers 3to 7 The drawer 8 is shown as a solid block wit-h a hole boredvertically therethrough. The lower end of this hole is normally closedby a bottom 10 to form a coin receptacle, or drawer-space, 9. The blockhas a cut away portion, beginning, as shown, a little in the rear of theforward end thereof, sufficient to receive said bottom. The latter hasits forward end hinged to the drawer block at 11, the rear end of thebottom 10 being free and supported as a bottom against the block, whenthe drawer is open, by the lower edge of the drawer opening. lVhen thedrawer is closed its solid front portion is in the plane of the draweropening and support for the bottoms free end is thus, as it were,withdrawn by the closing of the drawer. This permits the rear end of thedrawer to drop down into the inclined position in which it is shown inFig. 2. hen the drawer is opened its bottom is dragged over the loweredge of the bottom opening and thus forced into the horizontal positionagainst the drawerblock, or body of drawer and provides a. closure orbottom for the lower end of the coin hole 9. The pivoting 11 of saidbottom, being a little distance in the rear of the front end of thedrawer, and also forwardly of the opening 9 and therefore not visible byglancing into said opening, the bottom, as seen when the drawer is open,appears to be an ordinary fixed bottom. It is only after the drawer hasbeen pushed in far enough to have its opening 9 completely covered orconcealed by the top 13 of the dresser that the bottom 10 drops away anddrops the contents of the drawer into the inaccessible space below. Thetop may be secured in any suitable manner, as by a pair of plates on theunderside of the bottom bent twice at right angles to provide lugs orlips 2 and 3 to be engaged with suitable recesses in the dresser front(not shown), and an ordinary lock for the back of the dresser and therear edge of its top. This feature of the drawer and its bottom willafford amusement and surprise in connection with, say, temptations todrop a coin into the drawer to see what will happen.

On the top 13 of the dresser are mounted two blind drawer-cases lat withblind drawers 15 thereon, or drawer-front formations similar to those onthe front of the body of the dresser. These parts 14-15 are merelyinverted open boxes which are hinged covers over the openings throughthe top for the jZICk-lH-tllQbOX to appear when the drawer 8 is opened,as will appear more fully hereinafter. The boxes or spaces in which thejacks or figures are located are indicated by the numerals 16 and 17 andthe figures are indicated at 18 and 19. In each of the boxes is avertical or upstanding post or guide pin 20 on which the figure ismounted for vertical movement. These posts are secured to the bottom ofthe dresser or the bottoms of the boxes Each figure is provided with alongitudinal bore 21 to be engaged by the post 20.

On the rear edge of the dresser-top 13 is mounted a mirror support ofconventional form having a pair of upstanding arms or mirror-supports 22and 23 to which the mirror is pivotally or immovably mounted, as may bepreferred, at 25 and 26. Preferably in the center of the mirror the backof the glass is scraped clean of its coating or the mercury to provide atransparent portion 2%, shown in Fig. 1 as of oblong form. Between theusual wooden back of the mirror and the glass is mounted a disk or card27. This card is arranged to have its one end normally cover thetransparent space, and this part of the card bears a suitable picture orphoto of the owner of the bank or dresser, or some other illustration ordevice. The other end of the card,whieh end is ,concealed normallybehind the coated part of the mirror glass, may have a suitablesubscription such as the words Thank you shown on the card in Fig. 1. Aswill hereinafter appear the opening of the drawer 8 not only causes theblind drawers 1.5 to fly up and the jacks to bob into view, but the card27 is moved toward the left (Fig. 1) to hide the picture behind themirror and bring the words Thank you into view through the clear part ofthe glass. This serves as a delicate invitation to uncle or other friendto assist a child owner of the bank in its worthy ambition to savesomething for the rainy day after the friend has had the curiosity topull open the drawer of this piece of furniture.

Referring now to the mechanism for causing the various movementsreferred to as resultant from the opening of the drawer, the outer sidesof the drawer 8 have therein grooves or channels 28 and 29. Thesegrooves are engaged loosely by the free ends of springs 30 and 31pivoted intermediate of their respective ends at 32 and 33. Each of theopposite ends of said springs is bent outwardly and horizontally atright angles to the body of the spring and this portion is indicated bythe numeral 34 in Figs. 3 and 5. From this horizontal bent portion 34:the spring is bent upwardly to form a vertical portion 35 and the end ofthe latter bend is bent horizontally in the form of a lip or catch 36.This catch is engaged by a catch or corresponding lip 37 forming theterminus of a screw in and projecting clownwardly from the inner or freeedge of each of the covers 14-15 through openings or holes 38 and 39 inthe top 13 through which the heads of the figures are caused to bob upon pulling out the drawer 8. The catches on the springs 30 and 31 and onthe boxes, drawers or covers 14 15 are arranged to snap together orautomatically engage when the covers are pressed down from their open ordotted line positions indicated by dotted lines in Figs. 1 and 2. Therelease of said covers is therefore effected by the pivotal movements ofthe springs 30 and 31 and such movements are effected through thesliding contacts of the springs with the grooves in the sides of thedrawer 8. The ends of these grooves where the spring-ends normally restwhen the drawer is closed, are deepened as at 40 and 41 in Fig. 3sufliciently to permit the catch-ends of the springs to be engaged bythe catches on the" covers when the latter are pressed down, as stated.The remaining portions of said drawer-grooves are shallower so that whenthe drawer is drawn out and the spring ends are forced out of thedeepened parts into the shallow portions of the grooves the catch-endsof the springs are forced toward each other thus releasing the catchesfrom the catches on the covers for the jacks Each of the covers iscaused to fly up when released from its catch by a coiled spring 42mounted within and secured to the boxlike cover and having a tensionedend 43 which bears against the top 13. 4 represents the hinge for eachcover.

The connection for the jacks is identical for each one, and adescription of the connection of one with the drawer 8 will thereforesuffice for both. To the lower end of the jack is secured a cord orspring 45 from which lower end the cord passes through an eye $7 on theunderside of the top 13 near the side of the drawer, the cord havingfirst run vertically along the side of the figure thence horizontallyover the top of the figures box to said eye. The cord is finally securedto an eye 48 on the drawer.

The connection for the mirror device, or card 27, consists of a cordwhich runs from the rear end of the drawer 8 to the left hand end of thecard. This cord passes from the eye 48 on the drawer and is designatedby the numeral 49. From the eye 48 the cord passes through an eye 50,thence through an opening 50 in the top 13, thence through an openingthrough the upright supporting the left-hand end of the mirror and outat the pivot 25 to the card 27 between the mirror glass and its back.The cord is normally held in the .position in which it is shown in Fig.1, and returned to said position when the pull on the cord 49 isrelieved by closing the drawer 8, by an elastic or spring 51 connectingthe right hand end of the card with that end of the mirror frame.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. In a toy, a savings bank in the form of a bureau ordresser, a coin or money drawer in said dresser, selfemptying meansoperable by the closing of said drawer, mechanical devices to be set inmotion by the opera tion of said drawer, and means for operating same.

2. In a toy, a dresser having a series of blind drawers therein, amovable drawer in said dresser, a hinged bottom for said drawer arrangedto leave the opening or space in the drawer without a bottom when thelatter is closed, means for causing the bottom to take its position as abottom for said drawer when the latter is opened or drawn out, a seriesof movable figures normally concealed by said dresser when said draweris closed, and means for bringing said figures into view when saiddrawer is opened.

3. In a toy, a childs savings bank having the form of a dresser withblind drawers and a movable money drawer therein, vertically movablefigures or jacks normally contained within said dresser and movablecovers on said dresser for concealing said figures, and connectionsbetween said money drawer and said figures and said covers for operatingsame simultaneously for the purpose of bringing said figures into viewwhen said money drawer is opened.

4. In a toy, a childs savings bank having the form of a dresser withblind drawers and a movable money drawer therein, vertically movablefigures or jacks normally contained within said dresser and normallyconcealed behind a portion of said blind drawers, and connectionsbetween said money drawer and said figures or jacks for causing thelatter to project and the blind drawers covering same to open when saidmoney drawer is opened.

5. In a toy, a childs savings bank having the form of a dresser withblind drawers on the front thereof and a movable money drawer, a mirroron the back of said dresser, said mirror having a transparent portion,one or more jacks in the box normally contained and concealed withinsaid dresser, said dresser having an opening or openings in the topthereof for said jack or jacks, through which the latter are movable, ablind drawer, or drawers. normally covering said opening or openings,means keeping same normally closed, means tending to open same, a cardor plate mounted behind said mirror and having a portion thereofnormally exposed through said transparent portion and a figure orinscription on each end of said card, one normally exposed and the othernormally concealed behind the nontransparent portion of the mirror, aconnection between said jack or jacks and the money drawer, a meansconnecting said blind drawer or drawers and said money drawer, means forconnecting said card or plate with said money drawer, said connectionsoperating, respectively, to release said blind drawer or drawers, tocause said jack or jacks to appear above the top of said dresser and tomove said card or plate when said money drawer is operated.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of twosubscribing witnesses.

KARL OSTLUND.

Witnesses:

OLOF OSTLUND, M. C. ALLEN.

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